Russian Foreign Policy in the Post-Soviet Era

BOBO LO is the Visiting Fellow at the Carnegie Moscow Centre. He has written extensively on Russian foreign and security policy as an independent researcher and previously, as first secretary and then deputy head of mission at the Australian Embassy in Moscow (1995-99). He is the author of Soviet Labour Ideology and the Collapse of State.

• Acknowledgements Introduction The Determinants of Russian Foreign Policy Recasting the Ideological Debate Illusion and Mythmaking The Geopolitical Strain A Question of Priorities: The Practice of Foreign Policy Towards Normalization? Putin and Beyond Bibliography Index

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